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to stand also as near to the hot-bed ground as convenient, and yet 

 it is too dissightly to be in the inside of the garden. A shed about 

 fortv feet long, and about seven feet wide, might suffice for this 

 purpose ; and it might stand very conveniently, as at r, in the 

 outer garden, on the east side of the entrance at a, the back of the 

 buildins: beino- hiiih enough to allow the eaves of the roof to 

 be six feet from the ground ; and the back being towards the 

 hedge, and not to\-\ ards the ^ all. ■ As to water, I have not pointed 

 out anv particular place in the garden for a well or other means 

 of obtaining water. It ^vill be seen, by-aud-by, that I am of 

 opinion that a great deal of time and labour bestowed upon 

 ^^aterinSj are, in general, so much time and labour thrown away, 

 and effect injury instead of good. Xevertheless, there are many 

 cases in which watering by hand is absolutely necessary : in hot- 

 beds, for instance : in the case of plants in pots : in the case of 

 things v. hich can be shaded during the day ; in the case of cauli- 

 flowers, which grow so much larger and finer when dishes are made 

 round them and plenty of water given. Therefore, there must be 

 water used in a garden of this extent : and to bring it from any 

 considerable distance would be a thing extremely inconvenient and 

 attended with great expense. If running water can be brought 

 through a part of the garden, that is the desirable thing: and, 

 when we see the great number of situations where this might be 

 done at a mere tritiing expense, we are astonished at the small 

 number of instances in ^\ hich it has ever been attempted. There 

 is scarcely an instance, where we find a mansion-house of any 

 considerable size, where a river, a brook, or a spring, might not 

 be made to furnish a run of vrater for the garden. Above 

 ground, or under ground, until it came to the wall, where an 

 arch and a grating might be made to let it in, a channel to con- 

 duct it across, and another arch and grating to let it out again. 

 Running water, besides the prettiness of it, would give banks or 

 edges for the growth of several things which delight m it : straw- 

 berries, raspberries, quince-trees, and almost every sort of tree. 

 But, supposing it to be impossible to have the vrater in this ^vay, 

 the usual resource of a well must be resorted to. From this well, 

 the water would be raised by a pump pouring the water into a 

 large cistern, made of brick and well cemented, the v.alls rising 

 about two feet above the ground, which cistei-n should be kept 

 always pretty- nearly full, in order for the water to get softened 



